xthexder
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- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 2 days ago:
What the “middle class” can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably “upper class” at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 days ago:
Idk, I kind of like knowing how many layers of clothes I need to put on before I leave the house. Especially when the wind chill can make it feel like another -10°C pretty easily.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 5 days ago:
I agree with this, but I don’t think we’ll ever be able to have that again. AI slop is drowning out all the genuine content regardless of monetization. What’s the incentive to put hours of effort into something if nobody will ever see it because every hour another 1000 AI versions were generated and they’re all “close enough” to fool someone not paying attention?
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 5 days ago:
I’m not sure Sam Altman even knows what labor is.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 5 days ago:
I’ve seen pretty much the same thing happening in the programming space. In another 10 years there’s going to be a massive shortage of senior programmers who are capable of doing anything more complicated than the AI, and able to sort out the messes everyone’s creating with it.
All the companies not wanting to hire entry level programmers right now is also a big problem for those starting now. I can only hope companies realize AI is not a replacement for a human’s learning ability.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 5 days ago:
Better content?
Lol
Lmao even. - Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help that the AI also has no ability to go backwards or edit code, it can only append. The best it can do is write it all out again with changes made, but even then, the chance of it losing the plot while doing that is pretty high.
- Comment on US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator 2 weeks ago:
If that company has people curating the results, then they have a reason to exist and they would have a valid copyright. If the company is just feeding customer prompts into an AI, then there’s no copyright, but also no value added vs just using stable diffusion or a hosted service yourself.
I just think any AI image that can’t be copyrighted wouldn’t be worth buying a license for anyway, since that implies no human was involved in creating it.
- Comment on US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator 2 weeks ago:
You can buy a license to use the work from the original author.
Why would you give a machine money? Just use the generation tools yourself and then you have the copyright. If there was no human input then it’s just worthless AI slop. - Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 weeks ago:
No I asked for a definition that doesn’t include property damage.
If you read what they’re saying, they made a pretty good argument for why the definition of violence can include property damage.
You can stick your head in the sand all you want, but only reading answers that match your opinion is a good way to go insane.
- Comment on Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption 2 weeks ago:
I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 3 weeks ago:
Based on current trends, I’d say we might get SSDs and HDDs at the same cost per GB around 2030. That’s based on prices being 12-13x higher in 2015, and around 5x higher now. SSD cost efficiencies are slowing down, but there will also be a big change in demand once the prices get close, because SSDs have other advantages people will switch as soon as it’s economical.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 3 weeks ago:
If you’re storing petabytes of data sure, but when a tape drive costs $8k+ (Only price I could find that wasn’t “Call for quote”), and only storing less than 500TB, it’s cheaper to buy hard drives.
I’m not sure how important 2 types of media is these days, I personally have all my larger data on harddrives, but with multiple off-site copies and raid redundancy. Some people count “cloud” as another type of storage, but that’s just “somebody else’s harddrive”
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 3 weeks ago:
As a person hosting my own data storage, tape is completely out of reach. The equipment to read archival tapes would cost more than my entire system. It’s also got extremely high latency compared to spinning disks, which I can still use as live storage.
Unless you’re a huge company, spinning disks will be the way to go for bulk storage for quite a while.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
If anyone’s ever followed console emulator development, they know those undocumented commands are everywhere. There’s still people finding new ones for the N64 hardware
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
Let me explain how it works when you self host like me:
- “All” starts out completely empty, there are no federated instances to find this way.
- You then have to browse communities on other instances and subscribe to them on your own instance. Only then will posts start showing up in “All”.
- Since there’s only 1 user, the list of communities in “All” is the exact same list of communities in “Subscribed”
For most people yes, you can just browse “All” unless you’re on a smaller instance, since someone on your Instance has probably already subscribed to the community you’re looking for.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
I think it would show up in All still, but only posts that were synced while it was subscribed I thin?. I haven’t really checked if posts would disappear again. On the “Top Day” view I use, the “All” posts are identical to “Subscribed”
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
If you’re on an instance with only 1 user, they’re the same thing. But yes, Lemmy’s a lot better if you just subscribe to what you want.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
Setting up my own instance ended up being pretty good for me since it meant I had to manually subscribe to every community I want. The quality of “All” posts depends heavily on the instance you’re on.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 4 weeks ago:
They’re synonyms in this case, so either works here
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 month ago:
They don’t have to explicitly ban the Cybertruck if it doesn’t pass the existing regulations. It’s not legal to drive in UK/EU. You could buy one for display-only or something I’m sure.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
Vinyl is lossy in that any dust or scratches on the record can be heard in the output, so this only true if you’ve got an absolutely pristine vinyl.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 1 month ago:
I’m surprised you mentioned the battery (which is a problem with any EV towing), and not the fact the hitch can just snap off if you hit a pothole hard enough.
- Comment on Don't let the smoke out 2 months ago:
Grammar is the least of your concern if you’re letting the magic smoke out
- Comment on Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification for their own Works With programs 2 months ago:
I think it’s just a very unfortunate auto-cropped thumbnail
- Comment on As a novice at soldering, I now have an opinion about single-sided vs. double-sided breadboards 4 months ago:
I guess the stuff I buy is an extra tier above then, because I definitely only spring for the platted through-hole double sided boards. I’ve cut little sections of my supply to use in various projects.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 4 months ago:
If you are the CA, you can sign a new certificate yourself for google.com and the browser will accept it. It’s effectively MITM for any certificate. The browser has no way of knowing there’s 2 “valid” certs at once, and in fact that is allowed regardless (multiple servers with different instances of the SSL cert is very common now)
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 4 months ago:
Well, it’s difficult, as it should be, because if you control a certificate in the active chain of trust of browsers, you can hack pretty much anything you want.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 4 months ago:
Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 4 months ago:
Maybe just use percentages instead of these weird units. 0.2 MHh per hour is just 0.2 MW, or 20%.